Hudson Valley Vegans
Building Community for those Vegan or Vegan-curious!
Building Community for those Vegan or Vegan-curious!
November
Events 2019
Join us for a vegan Thanksgiving Feast
Nine Good Reasons To Move Towards Plant Based Eating
1. Our digestive system is set up to break down complex carbohydrates: it is long and convoluted. When we eat meat it can putrefy. Carnivorous animals have a short smooth digestive tract with hydrochloric acid 4X stronger than humans. Our teeth are designed for grinding and chewing, not cutting and tearing.
2. We are the only species that drinks milk after weaning and consumes the milk of another species. The protein in cows’ milk is meant to grow a calf to 800+ pounds.
3. Eating lots of meat and dairy is associated with high rates of heart disease, cancer and diabetes and osteoporosis.
4. Animal agriculture is responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation, which causes 13%. Methane produced by cows is very damaging.
5. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, while a pound of vegetables can be grown using 16 gallons of water. Pesticides are concentrated in meat.
6. 70% of the grain grown in the USA is fed to animals, a very inefficient way to produce food. If all the world’s people ate as those in the developed countries do, we would need three planet earths to supply enough food.
7. The animals raised for food today live in confinement, are fed unnatural diets to promote rapid growth and they cannot live in the way nature intended. Most do not go outside. Sows are confined in gestation crates where they can not even turn around. No laws cover disposal of hog farm sewage.
8. Dairy cows and their calves are separated right after birth, and they bellow and cry out for each other.
9. We slaughter TEN BILLION animals each year in the USA. Most are egg-laying chickens who live in cages where each one has only as much room as this piece of paper. The male chicks are suffocated right after birth as they can’t lay eggs and are not bred for meat. Those chickens and turkeys raised for their flesh are forced to grow so big and so fast that they can hardly support their weight. They are killed at six weeks of age, when they would still be sleeping under their mother’s wing.
1. Our digestive system is set up to break down complex carbohydrates: it is long and convoluted. When we eat meat it can putrefy. Carnivorous animals have a short smooth digestive tract with hydrochloric acid 4X stronger than humans. Our teeth are designed for grinding and chewing, not cutting and tearing.
2. We are the only species that drinks milk after weaning and consumes the milk of another species. The protein in cows’ milk is meant to grow a calf to 800+ pounds.
3. Eating lots of meat and dairy is associated with high rates of heart disease, cancer and diabetes and osteoporosis.
4. Animal agriculture is responsible for almost half of all greenhouse gas emissions, more than all transportation, which causes 13%. Methane produced by cows is very damaging.
5. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce a pound of meat, while a pound of vegetables can be grown using 16 gallons of water. Pesticides are concentrated in meat.
6. 70% of the grain grown in the USA is fed to animals, a very inefficient way to produce food. If all the world’s people ate as those in the developed countries do, we would need three planet earths to supply enough food.
7. The animals raised for food today live in confinement, are fed unnatural diets to promote rapid growth and they cannot live in the way nature intended. Most do not go outside. Sows are confined in gestation crates where they can not even turn around. No laws cover disposal of hog farm sewage.
8. Dairy cows and their calves are separated right after birth, and they bellow and cry out for each other.
9. We slaughter TEN BILLION animals each year in the USA. Most are egg-laying chickens who live in cages where each one has only as much room as this piece of paper. The male chicks are suffocated right after birth as they can’t lay eggs and are not bred for meat. Those chickens and turkeys raised for their flesh are forced to grow so big and so fast that they can hardly support their weight. They are killed at six weeks of age, when they would still be sleeping under their mother’s wing.
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